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Overview
In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1992
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
- Cast
- Hans-Peter Korff,Mathias Gnädinger,Noemi Steuer,Nina Petri,Wolf-Dietrich Berg,Johanna Karl-Lory,Herbert Leiser,Andrea Eckert,Jasmin Tabatabai
- Director
- Urs Egger
- Writer
- Johannes Bösiger
- Producer
- Johannes Bösiger,Urs Egger,Peter Spoerri
- Cinematography
- Lukas Strebel
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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